Possible spoilers ahead I watched 2.5 seasons so far
Look I can honestly say that's possibly what you can take away from the series as an illiterate reactionary. The """based""" character is bad and the others are the good guys.
But the show is lib as fuck (though good for a mainstream corporate produced TV show).
Acknowledging the CIA is bad and involved in selling drugs to black communities in one scene? Really good
Making the CIA the good guys because the more fash fascists are even worse than the American empire? Bad.
If "radlib Snyder" is too far left for these people, then they might be beyond saving.
He'll print off a hundred copies of Black Lotus just for himself to sign and sell at 3* the price of an original and the Elon Stans will buy it up within a day.
I can see there's a more neutral tone without regard to the (previous) headline, I guess it painted the article in a more condesending tone upon first read through. I do agree it's better than most articles though. Even so, the "Journal of Record" is embarrassing itself at best.
See I got pay walled the first time where the first paragraph was about "11 Republicans did yada yada yada about China's X industry" so to the average Reddit/Facebook lib who reads the headline and move on, they get their China bad microdose, and even in the preview body it's "Republicans did X" before the paywall hits for the tiny amount of yanks that click through. It feels engineered for Libs sitting through Thanksgiving with their MAGA family members by going in their phones.
They do go in about how China's initiative for food security and plant based/lab grown meat is a "holy grail" that's ultimately better for the planet but the redditor had stopped reading way before that.
Idk, I guess my first read through was with the title and image in mind, phrases such as "so called future meat" like it's not something that's available at a small scale ATM and "holy grail" as if the goal is some unattainable pie in the sky made it come off as "good on them for trying! Congrats!" while making the Republicans in the first paragraph sound unreasonable and silly seemed really peak Lib to me
Hiding the "it is technically better for the environment... BUT" in the body of a pay walled article probably counts as being "fair and balanced" reporting
Every time you lose a sock in the washing machine? That was the See See Pee. Xi rappelling down from the ceiling like Mission Impossible to steal a single sock
If you can understand Mandarin, there's an extra level. His tone is "I am so fucking done", I can't believe you called the emergency line for this. Like "You are a clown, but I am not laughing". Dismissive but firm.
It's a recommended sub on the reddit app for people who frequent r/latestagecapitalism and other radlib subs so they've got a bunch of people who don't listen to Second Thought, Yu-Gi-Oh!pnik and Hakim's podcast. So it's actually a weird case of the subreddit being less hardline than the podcast. Like a bizarro r/cth
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Possible spoilers ahead I watched 2.5 seasons so far
Look I can honestly say that's possibly what you can take away from the series as an illiterate reactionary. The """based""" character is bad and the others are the good guys.
But the show is lib as fuck (though good for a mainstream corporate produced TV show).
Acknowledging the CIA is bad and involved in selling drugs to black communities in one scene? Really good
Making the CIA the good guys because the more fash fascists are even worse than the American empire? Bad.
If "radlib Snyder" is too far left for these people, then they might be beyond saving.